Claim

Video of nurses shielding newborns at a hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, when a devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar and its neighbouring countries, including Thailand and China, on March 28.

The archived version of the post can be seen here. We received the video on our Whatsapp tipline (91-9999499044), too, with users requesting us to fact-check it.

Fact

Newschecker noticed that the 48-second video carried a dateline reading, “Ruili City, SW China; March 28, 2025”, and a watermark of the channel, “CGTN”, which is the English-language news channel of the state-run China Global Television Network, based in Beijing, China. 

We learnt that on March 28, when two back-to-back earthquakes of magnitudes 7.7 and 6.4 struck Myanmar, strong tremors were reported in China’s southwestern province of Yunnan, with two people slightly injured in Ruili, a city bordering Myanmar, further raising our doubts on the location of the video.

A relevant keyword search led us to this CGTN report on Youtube, dated March 30, 2025, sharing the same video, stating, “As a magnitude-7.7 earthquake shook Myanmar, nurses rushed to protect newborn babies at a maternity center in Ruili City, southwest China’s Yunnan Province.”

We also came across these Indian Express, Hindustan Times and BBC reports, confirming that CCTV footage from the Jingcheng Hospital’s maternity centre in China’s Yunnan province showed two nurses risking their lives to protect newborns when a powerful earthquake struck neighbouring Myanmar on Friday (March 28, 2025).

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Source
CGTN report, Youtube, March 30, 2025
Indian Express report, March 31, 2025